Melvin Vincent, Author at Know Industrial Engineering

How to do capacity analysis for manufacturing

6 Comments / INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING / Melvin Vincent

In this article we will discuss basics of capacity analysis. After reading this article you will be able to do capacity analysis for a manufacturing plant. I got a request in for uploading this article in the page, ‘request an article’. Hence this article. Ok lets move forward. What is capacity Capacity means ability to […]

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Dashboard

Leave a Comment / Data Science / Melvin Vincent

Dashboard is the most common word used nowadays in business or operations. We will discuss why this word is getting more and more popular now, in this article. Before we start I would like to remind you one thing that decision making is not difficult compared to analyzing data. Analyzing data is the most difficult

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Earn money by writing articles on manufacturing industry

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Earn passive income or money by writing articles on subjects related to manufacturing industry for Know industrial engineering.

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Mean time to repair (MTTR)

1 Comment / Total Productive Maintenance / Melvin Vincent

Car photo created by serhii_bobyk – www.freepik.com Mean time to repair (MTTR) is the average of, downtimes of a particular machine, for a particular time period. In other words, it is the average of times required to recover from its failures, for a particular time period. MTTR and MTBF are closely related. You may read

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Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)

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Car photo created by prostooleh – www.freepik.com Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is the average of the run times of a machine, between two failures, for a particular time period. Time period can be one week, one month, one year etc… How to Calculate Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) MTBF is calculated by following formula,

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What is Effectiveness

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Let’s discuss what is effectiveness through a simple example. There was an operator and he has given a task of producing 50 products in two hours. And he achieved the target in the given time. In this case we can say that the operator was effective. Two important words related to Effectiveness Task and time

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Rating in Time and Motion study

Leave a Comment / Work Study / Melvin Vincent

This article explains what is rating and how to do rating in time and motion study. This article is related to the article on Direct stopwatch time study, which explains about how to do time study. Ok let’s dive into our subject. What is rating Rating is the one of the steps conducted during time

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How to calculate manpower for preventive maintenance with varying checklist frequency

Leave a Comment / Preventive Maintenance / Melvin Vincent

In this article we will learn about ‘How to calculate manpower for preventive maintenance with varying checklist frequency’. Here I will explain the situation. We have a lot of different types of machines in which preventive maintenance to be done. Each type of machines have different type of activities or checklists and its frequency also

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How to calculate manpower for Preventive Maintenance

1 Comment / Preventive Maintenance / Melvin Vincent

Hi, I am writing this article since I got a request to write an article on ‘How to calculate manpower for Preventive Maintenance’ on request an article page. Ok lets start… Following steps can be followed for calculating manpower for preventive maintenance(pm) team. Step 1 : Clearly define what all are the activities to be

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